At the beginning of The Permanent Picture a teenage girl gives birth, gives up her baby, and disappears. Then, 50 years later, a casting director discovers her...
“Rossellini’s films,” Jacques Rivette wrote in a letter to Cahiers du Cinéma dated 1955, “have more and more obviously become amateur films––home movies.” The ...
The summer shark movie should be silly. It should know exactly what it is: a B-movie with a bigger-than-expected budget, a bankable star, and unlimited scenes ...
The latest film from acclaimed documentarian Steve James, A Compassionate Spy, comes with a fascinating subject: the spy who leaked nuclear information from th...
Claire Simon cites Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital (1970) and Near Death (1989) as key inspirations for her latest film, and for much of its 168-minute runtime Ou...
Four teenage boys run through the streets of New York City. They go to their local bodega, pick up pizzas, watch a movie in the park, and head back home later ...
Dreams are hard. Most of us wake up. And what a sad thing that is. Dreamin' Wild, written and directed by Bill Pohlad and based on the article "Fruitland" by S...
The question asked back in the '80s and '90s was never, "Have you seen The Star Wars Holiday Special?" It was always, "Have you heard of The Star Wars Holiday ...
Fighting with your neighbors is awful because, well, they can literally hit you where you live. Antoine and Olga, a middle-class French couple trying to get by...
What would your life be like if you didn’t go to work the day an accident would otherwise change everything? How much of your future might shift if you decide ...
